1984 Quote by George Orwell

Property is surely a right of mankind as real as liberty. Perhaps, at first, prejudice, habit, shame or fear, principle or religion, would restrain…

— John Adams

“the greater the number of owners, the less the respect for common property. People are much more careful of their personal possessions than of…

— Aristotle

“You see, it is my passionately held belief that the right to possess property is at best a contingent one When disparities become too…

— Mohsin Hamid

“But it was also clear that an all-round increase in wealth threatened the destruction—indeed, in some sense was the destruction—of a hierarchical society. In…

— George Orwell

“Naturally there was the notion of private property as a pragmatic concept, for individuals or groups have a proclivity to tend to their own…

— Ashim Shanker

As an element in human progress, the right of private property, in importance, has taken first and almost only place in the current systems…

— Joshua K. Ingalls

“You see, it is my passionately held belief that the right to possess property is at best a contingent one. When disparities become too…

— Mohsin Hamid

It must be assumed and established as a principle, that the right of private property must be regarded as sacred. Wherefore, the law ought…

— Pope Leo XIII

“Capitalism, far from affording "privileges" to the middle classes, tends to degrade them more abjectly than any other stratum in society. The system deploys…

— Murray Bookchin

“But it was also clear that an all-round increase in wealth threatened the destruction — indeed, in some sense was the destruction — of…

— George Orwell

“But modern bourgeois private property is the final and most complete expression of the system of producing and appropriating products, that is based on…

— Frederick Engels Karl Marx

The possessions of the rich are stolen property.

— Pierre-Joseph Proudhon